The tables were turned Thursday night in Idaho’s 80-63 loss to Northern Colorado.
The tables Idaho generally dines on in its most impressive wins, that is.
It was all backwards in likely the season’s most disappointing game. Idaho’s typical dominance boarding the basketball was swiped away by the Bears and donned like a copycat thief. The sniper-precision from deep and ability to prevent success from opposing sharpshooters was also hijacked by the fuzzy intruders, leaving the Vandals empty-handed and flustered as they frantically searched for any vestige of their former selves.
Although senior guard Victor Sanders retained his personage and dropped a clean 26 on 50 percent from the field, the rest of the offensive onslaught was rare.